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in reply to a message by .blonde.
Yes, that sounds like a made-up meaning. Commercial baby-oriented websites want to sell things (baby products etc), and to attract people they also 'sell' their baby names as a product. For that they need good product descriptions. No-one is going to buy, for example, personalised items for their precious angel daughter Mackenzie if all of those items will proudly display the meaning "Son of Kenneth". So, the sites invent - often out of thin air - nice meanings that will attract buyers. Thus we have:
Mackenzie meaning "Comely" at www.babychatter.com
Mackenzie meaning "Son of the Handsome One" at www.babiesonline.com
Mackenzie meaning "Fair, Favoured One" at www.babynology.com
Etc, etc. The sites often copy off each other (the Fair, Favoured One meaning turns up quite often). Another example is Nevaeh, which is the word 'heaven' backwards. A common misspelling of this is Neveah. For a couple of years, just about every baby name site on the web tried to pass Neveah off as a Slavic name meaning 'butterfly', instead of a backwards misspelling of Heaven. There was no basis in fact for this meaning, and it spread because the sites copied from each other or received emails from people who had seen the 'butterfly' meaning on other sites.
I've had a look at a few "Lydia = Beauty" sites, and the fact that they all give their meanings in the same wording ("Woman from Persia, Beauty.") makes me very suspicious that this is yet another random bit of misinformation spread across many sites.
Either way, Lydia does not mean "Beauty" in Greek or any other language I can think of. The only correct meaning is "of Lydia".
♦ Chrisell ♦
All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us. - J.R.R. Tolkien.
Mackenzie meaning "Comely" at www.babychatter.com
Mackenzie meaning "Son of the Handsome One" at www.babiesonline.com
Mackenzie meaning "Fair, Favoured One" at www.babynology.com
Etc, etc. The sites often copy off each other (the Fair, Favoured One meaning turns up quite often). Another example is Nevaeh, which is the word 'heaven' backwards. A common misspelling of this is Neveah. For a couple of years, just about every baby name site on the web tried to pass Neveah off as a Slavic name meaning 'butterfly', instead of a backwards misspelling of Heaven. There was no basis in fact for this meaning, and it spread because the sites copied from each other or received emails from people who had seen the 'butterfly' meaning on other sites.
I've had a look at a few "Lydia = Beauty" sites, and the fact that they all give their meanings in the same wording ("Woman from Persia, Beauty.") makes me very suspicious that this is yet another random bit of misinformation spread across many sites.
Either way, Lydia does not mean "Beauty" in Greek or any other language I can think of. The only correct meaning is "of Lydia".
All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us. - J.R.R. Tolkien.
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